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ASKS TO BE HEARD NICHOLS WILL 09 BEFORE PROBERS THIS WEEK SIMS REFUSES TO TALK ?. * i 'liuiruian Carlisle Discounts Governor's Throats, au<l Says Committee Will Continue Work.?Committee ltcfrnkiod, lfo Says, From Looking into Hleasc's Private Idfo. "At my request Senator Howard 13. Carlisle has consented t.o call a mooting of the dispensary committee, to be held in Columbia probably some time this week and at that time I will go on the stand and tell of the dictagraph conversations wriicli are alleged to have taken place between myeelf and Mr. Porter, the Burns detective," said Samuel Nichols, the Spartanburg attorney, so prominently mentioned in the testi 1110113' before the committee in Augusta. "Until that, time I have 110 statement whatever to give out, continued Mr. Nichols. "What I say I want to ea3r on the witness stand and after being sworn, so that it will become a part of the record. Tf I talk now, it would merely be a statement and I must refuse to say anything whatever." This statement was made at Spartanburg 011 monday by Nichols. J did state, however, that he was acting in good faith with the "Chicago attorney" and was only expecting a fee for the services rendered. Mr. Nichols was in the Governor's Mansion in Columbia on Sunday morning when the papers came and the flaring headlines were the first intimations bo hnd tliat. lie. lmd been trailed bv a Tiurns man. "it was all news to me," he said, "and I was as much surprised as anybody when I read the testimony." He did not say what comment. Governor HI ease and others present made about the matter. C. P. Sims, the other Spartanburg attorney, who drew up the petitions for the pardon of Gus Deford and circulated them in Spartanburg and obtained a number of signatures, said tic had nothing to say of the matter. He expressed the opinion that at the time he did not believe Porter was an attorney but rather sized him up as iteJug another ,yeggman, a pal of the prisoner, and'lie said he knew that y' tbrt-ge fellows often paid big fees to secure a pardon for one of their number. Mr. Nichols is anxious that the committee meet to-day, but Chairman Carlisle said he did not know the date of the next meeting of the committee. It will be held in Columbia probably this week. 'Mr Carlisle did not know whether or not any more testimony from the Burns man would be introduced before the committee. "No we are not very nervous ovi iv I 111 rmlc (\ f I n r.nvrti'nni? " 11. tinned Scua,tor Carlisle, "and we will contiue to probe into the affairs of the recent State dispensary regardless of the Governor." Mr. Carlisle stated { bat be heard criticism of the committee for spending 1he States money in order to employ the detectives. He stated that these expenses were not being paid by the State, and also said that ho knew Mr. Folder was paying the Burns men. ! The committed lias been abused by IP.lease," continued the chairman of committer, "butwe refuse to take ad vantage,bf the situation and rctalto by'allowing testimony which * tended <to throw light on the private life of the Governor. Col. Felder ww.iited to introduce this testimony, but the committee refused to hear it, as it had no bearing on the dispensary situation." Mr. Carlisle refused to divulge the nature of the testimony, but it was stated from another source that it was concerning the conduct of Governor Blease while at the Southern * Commercial Congress in Atlanta in 1 1. The Act for which Felder says V he will have Bloaso indicted is alleged (to have taken place In Atlanta at this time. On h\* trin to Washington and {Haitinioro Mr. Nichols was accompanied by The News and Courier correspondent and others. The party met Mr. Porter in the Altamont Hotel in Baltimore. He came there after the conversation with Mr. Nichols in the Now Willard in Washington. Mr. Nichols had already boon to Baltimore and then wont back to Washington tx> bold the conversation with Porter, which is alleged to have boon V recorded by the dictagraph. * iMr. Porter, or rather Mr. Por-teer, with the accent on the "cor", was a handsome man and appeared immensely wealthy. He wore an English walking suit and carried a cane. He was at the Altamont only a short timo. Mr. Por-teer visited this city on two occasions. He met a number of the Spartanburg men and, as one of them said, "He had manners like whiskey drummer." .? Will Itemcinber Him. The fact that Congressman Lever \has beo& unable to attend any of the . campaign meetings because of bis v duties at Wi^shlngton will not lessen Ills vote in the primary. The people know where heijs and what he is do* dug and will remember him when the primary is hoMk* WHAT NICHOLS SAYS ? ISSUES STATEMENT CONCERNING PARDON DEAL. Admits Sending Telegram to the Supposed Chicago Lawyer to Come to Spartanburg. The Spartanburg correspondent of The News and Courier says Samuel J Nichols Tuesday night broke the silence which he has maintained in regard to the charge that he, as agent of Governor Blease, planned to secure a pardon for James Johnson, the safe-blower, in exchange for a $15,000 bribe, of which the Governor, it is alleged, was to receive $5,000. In his statement Nichols says: "I had not expected to make any statement in reyard to the matter of Johnson's pardon, preferring, as I stated, to go before the committee and testify as to the exact facts in the case. I realize that the people are anxiously awaiting my statement. But i notice in a local paper this arternoon that Mr. Reid says he has a telegram which shows that Governor Blease accepted the $15,000 bribe, which, they say, was offered. 'J'hey say further that the telegram tells Reid, alias Porter, to hurry on South and wind up the deal and pay his money and get his pardon. "1 wish to say that this is one of the dirtiest lies that has been published in connection with this outrageous reflection on the Governor and myself, and 1 cannot allow it to go unnoticed, even until the committee meets again. "Mr. Reid has been summoned by Carlisle at my request to appear before the committee when I appear, and it is up to him to produce such a telegram from me or admit that he has lied in this as well as in other parts of the transaction. "I went to the lower part of the State with the intention of asking Governor Blease if he intended to consider any pardons before The election and upon finding ou* now busy he was I did not mention the pardon matter to him at all, as he has stated. "I have in my possession the only telegram which Porter received from me after I left Spartanburg, which telegram will be introduced by me at the hearing before the committee and which telegram, sent as above stated, after I lwul decided not to mention the matter to the Governor, reads as follows: " 'Things do not look good. Come to Spartanburg at once.' "As I have stated, this Is all I care to give out before I appear before the committee and at that time I c?n fully justify my whole connection wkh this matter." Mr. Nichols sent the telegram referred 10 rom Rlackv 1'e S. C. and ft was addressed to He^ry C. in Chicago. FLEEING FROM THE ISLAND. + High Tide and Storm at Tybee Frightens Residents. After a night spent on Tybee during which one of the highest tides of the year was recorded, hundreds of summer residents of the island rushed to Savannah Monday morning for fear of a destructive storm. The morning trains from the island were tilled with those who have cottages < cn the island or who have been stop- < ping at the hotel. The wind blew at a lively rate Sunday night ox Tybee and the rainfall was very heavy, the rain coming down in sheets. The sea forced its way far inland and Monday morning the waters of the Atlantic were pouring over the sea walls at Fort Screven as if it was not there. The experiences of the night have frightened a great many who were on the island and when at 10 o'clock the weajther station there hoisted the ( northeast storm warning, the uneasiness of hundreds grew into terror and there was a great scrambling to i got ready to leave. TKAXSFOKT WAS ICK-1IOUXD. Had Hogiinent of United States Troops on Hoard. After having narrowly escaped be- 1 irg sent to the bottom by the ice Iloos encountered in the Herring Sea, the United States army transport Sheridan arrived at Tacoma, Wash., . with the 16th Tinted States Infantry regiment. For seventeen days, off St. Lawrence Island to the west of Norton sound, pn route to Nome. t.ll6 Sheridan lay, ice-bound, making only ninety miles in this time. For forty-eight, hours her captain, Michael llealy and Pilot Kaersky, watched on the bridge of the ship and at times the captain stood at the bow d:recting the slow advance. The enlisted men suffered from cold and two died of pneumonia en route. The Sheridan is en route to San Francisco. + ?, ? Nichols (hive IIim Letter. Capt. Sandly, of the Penitentiary Ciuard, says Detective Peld, posing as Lawyer Porter, had brought h'm a letter of introduction from Sam .1 Nichols of Spartanburg, and had received permission to see Deford on the strength of this letter. Portor visited the penitentiary twice. REED BAGGED THEM ROUNDED UP A LOT OF ATLANTIC CITY GRAFTERS THE DICTAGRAPH USED ITio lioodlers Were Trapped Very Much in the Same Way That I teed, rosing as Henry N. Porter, a Chicago lawyer, Claims to llave Trapped Nichols. K. S. Heed, the detective who while posing as Henry N. Porter, a Chicago lawyer, claims to have entrapped Sam J. Nichols, a Spartanburg lawyer, into negotiations to have a notorious yeggman pardoned by Gov. Please, is original in his methods, very successful in his work, quiet with a manner which convinces one of liis sincerity, and a personality which is magnetic and engaging. Mr. Herd, who is the right bower of William .1. Hums, is spending a few days in Atlanta, the guest of Attorney Thomas 15. Felder, in whose employ he was when he secured the evidence against Nichols. It was Detective lteed who exponeci the Atlantic City grafters, eighty of whom have been convicted hv the grand jury, and it was he who traced Harvey Logan, the famous Montana train rohber, to South America. A history of him and his work would read like a real dime novel. it was Da ck in i??:? wnen .\i r. Rood, tlion a boy of 16 years, pulled his first big detective stunt. Jle had been assisting his father, who was also a detective, in running down some of the criminals who infected the Black Hills country in South Dakota following the Sioux Indian uprising. Since then he has handled many big cases, and has never failed to succeed in running down and bringing to justice the criminals he went after. The most recent and perhaps the most important piece of work ever done by Detective Reed was the rounding up of the Atlantic City grafters, which he completed a few weeks ago. After opening offices on \\ all Street, in New York, securing elaborate apartments at the Waldorf hotel in that city, Reed, posing as J. K. Harris, a millionaire contractor, went to Atlantic City, ostensibly for recreation. He took a suite of rooms it. the Marlborough-Blenheim, which he connected up with dictagraphs. Ascertaining that the city was spending $40,000 a year for repairs to the famous board walk, of which $30,000 was divided in graft to city oflicials and bosses, Reed gave out an Interview suggesting that the old old board walk should be replaced with a concrete walk, that in the end it would be cheaper and more satisfactory. He studiously avoided the city officials, and his interest appeared to be that of a disinterested but experienced contractor. The concrete walk suggestion attracted attention immediately, and the trade bodies and civic associations invited him to address them upon the project. After he had creatpd an almost universal demand for the new walk, one of the leaders in the council called on him at his hotel and adroitly negotiated a <ieai wHereby thirteen members of the council, the city attorney and other oflicials were to be paid certain sums Tor putting through the concrete walk ordinance. Seventy-five thousand dollars was to be divided among them. One by one the other councilmen were drawn into the negotiations arid conversations were had with the various officials at the 'MarlboroughRlenheim, the Waldorf, in New York, and the Continental hotel, in Newark. lOach of these conversations was recorded by the dictagraph, which Reed had previously arranged, the same as he had done at the Finch Hotel at Spartanburg and the New Williard Hotel in Washington, at both of which places he entrapped Nichols, The ordinance, which was passed by the grafters provided that Reed was to receive 7 per cent, of the $ 1,500,000 to be expended on the concrete walk for engineering services, 7 per cent, for his own personal supervision, and $80,000 for his plans, etc. This last mentioned sum was under the agreement to be divided among tlie grafters. So skittish were the grafters that they would not accept the money at any of the hotels, but insisted that it bo paid over in a back room or Malta's combination saloon and hotel, a dive run by an alderman by the name of Malia, who was one or the gang. It was necessary for Reed to install his dictagraph in this dive. * He must do this without creating suspicion, so lie hit upon the idea of sending a crew of linemen from Now York to Atlantic City who were os tensibly in the employ of a local power company. These linemen, one of whom was an expert dictagraph man. secured quarters in Malia's hotel and was seen about the streets and working at the top of poles for days. The dictagraph man spent the entire night preceding the day when the money was to be paid over in drilling a concrete floor over the gang's assembly room, and before he completed the job so that the dictagraph could be installed in the coiling of the assembly room some one heard the drilling and he was compelled to stop. Not to be outdone, Heed had the wires thrown out of a window, and a few minutes before the gang assem* bled be skillfully pinned the dictagraph behind a curtain. The operator working upstairs recorded all that transpired. Such a complete record was obtained that when confronted with the evidence the gangsters owned up and refunded practically all of the bribe money. 1 Classified Column Wanted?Traveling men; salary and expenses. Rox 3 07, Shelby, N. C. Indian Kminer Ducks?* i each. iJ un? aimaker Poultry Farm, Normandy, Tenn. Registered I. O. O, pigs, $15 pair; I mated no-akin. Owen Bros., liedford City, Va. ijadie* ? Combings made into switches, chignons. Write Mine Gates, Norfolk Va. Mrs. FoLline will open Hreeze Inn, Station 26, Atlanticville, Sullivan's Island, for boarders June 1. Why not earn $5 to $10 daily? Otherns do it with our auto tire specialty. The Russell Co., Richmond, Va. Write Is for Special Summer proposition. Our place will please you. 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To the Editor of The News and Courier: Would thank you were you to publish the following: In your issue of the 13th instant, appears that I had a conversation with one Bailey, alias Wilson, concerning the liquor situation in Charleston, who claims that I said: "We elected Cole lMease governor and we now have full protection, etc." I wish to state that I do not remember ever holding such a conversation, in fact, those words were never spoken by me to a nyone. Again it is claimed that I informed this party that 1 had personally paid a visit to his Excellency, Cole I,. Klea.se, at Columbia, and complained to him concerning the alleged grafting in Charleston, and having been waved aside by him, with a statement that he was running that end of the matter. I wish to most emphatically deny this and brand it as an absolute falsehood. Henry O. Hasselmeyer. SIX DIE IX A COAL MINE. ? Explosion Kills Two White Men and Four Negroes. 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